spork

Before he got kicked out for boundary issues, one of John Lasseter’s last acts as Pixar Czar was to put Toy Story 4 into production. The story goes that he initially didn’t think continuing the story after the planned trilogy was a good idea, but then he was so moved by the concept of Woody setting out to find his lost love Bo Peep, he couldn’t resist. The problem is, that original motive has been lost in the production process. Pixar films go through a lot of rewrites, and the finished version displayed below barely has a trace of the “love story” that enamored John so. Bo Peep is still there, but Woody kinda stumbles onto her by accident while searching for the REAL focus of the picture, a talking spork. Disney released an earlier trailer that had a scene of Bonnie sobbing because she couldn’t find her toy. The implication was that she was looking for Woody, but it turns out it’s actually Forky that’s her favorite toy. So